Martin Joseph Ponce
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814768051
- eISBN:
- 9780814768662
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814768051.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter examines the relationships among imperial assimilation, independence politics, and the heterosexual erotics of Philippine nationalism in Maximo M. Kalaw's work. In particular, his novel ...
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This chapter examines the relationships among imperial assimilation, independence politics, and the heterosexual erotics of Philippine nationalism in Maximo M. Kalaw's work. In particular, his novel The Filipino Rebel enables Kalaw to present the clashes of ideas, the conflict of beliefs, and the quarrel of philosophies during the early colonial period. The Filipino Rebel's engagement with the politics of independence seeks to recover what it deems the lost revolutionary spirit of 1899 by suggesting the male offspring of characters Juanito and Josefa as the nationalist promise of an independent future. The chapter argues that Kalaw's political science texts are predominantly oriented toward a U.S. readership, while his novel attempts to address and constitute what he names in the dedication, “Ang Bagong Katipunan.” His reorientation to the homeland in this novel aims to rouse nationalist effect by recurring to heterosexual eroticism and reproductive futurity.Less
This chapter examines the relationships among imperial assimilation, independence politics, and the heterosexual erotics of Philippine nationalism in Maximo M. Kalaw's work. In particular, his novel The Filipino Rebel enables Kalaw to present the clashes of ideas, the conflict of beliefs, and the quarrel of philosophies during the early colonial period. The Filipino Rebel's engagement with the politics of independence seeks to recover what it deems the lost revolutionary spirit of 1899 by suggesting the male offspring of characters Juanito and Josefa as the nationalist promise of an independent future. The chapter argues that Kalaw's political science texts are predominantly oriented toward a U.S. readership, while his novel attempts to address and constitute what he names in the dedication, “Ang Bagong Katipunan.” His reorientation to the homeland in this novel aims to rouse nationalist effect by recurring to heterosexual eroticism and reproductive futurity.
Martin Joseph Ponce
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814768051
- eISBN:
- 9780814768662
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814768051.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This book charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the United States, forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first ...
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This book charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the United States, forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first century. It theorizes and enacts a queer diasporic reading practice that attends to the complex crossings of race and nation with gender and sexuality. Tracing the conditions of possibility of Anglophone Filipino literature to U.S. colonialism in the Philippines in the early twentieth century, the book examines how a host of writers from across the century both imagine and address the Philippines and the United States, inventing a variety of artistic lineages and social formations in the process. The book considers a broad array of issues, from early Philippine nationalism, queer modernism, and transnational radicalism, to music-influenced and cross-cultural poetics, gay male engagements with martial law and popular culture, second-generational dynamics, and the relation between reading and revolution. It elucidates not only the internal differences that mark this literary tradition but also the wealth of expressive practices that exceed the terms of colonial complicity, defiant nationalism, or conciliatory assimilation. Moving beyond the nation as both the primary analytical framework and locus of belonging, the book proposes that diasporic Filipino literature has much to teach us about alternative ways of imagining erotic relationships and political communities.Less
This book charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the United States, forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first century. It theorizes and enacts a queer diasporic reading practice that attends to the complex crossings of race and nation with gender and sexuality. Tracing the conditions of possibility of Anglophone Filipino literature to U.S. colonialism in the Philippines in the early twentieth century, the book examines how a host of writers from across the century both imagine and address the Philippines and the United States, inventing a variety of artistic lineages and social formations in the process. The book considers a broad array of issues, from early Philippine nationalism, queer modernism, and transnational radicalism, to music-influenced and cross-cultural poetics, gay male engagements with martial law and popular culture, second-generational dynamics, and the relation between reading and revolution. It elucidates not only the internal differences that mark this literary tradition but also the wealth of expressive practices that exceed the terms of colonial complicity, defiant nationalism, or conciliatory assimilation. Moving beyond the nation as both the primary analytical framework and locus of belonging, the book proposes that diasporic Filipino literature has much to teach us about alternative ways of imagining erotic relationships and political communities.
